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R. PLAYER AND W. BAYLISS. ANCHOR. APPLICATION FILED APR.. 4. m9.

1 3 1 6, 593 Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH PLAYER, OF BIRMINGHAM, AND WILFRID BAYLISS, OF TIPTON, ENGLAND.

ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RALPH PLAYER residing at Queens Hotel, in the city of Birmingham, England, and WILFRID BAYLISS, residing at 73 Sedgley road west, Tipton, in the county of Staflord, England, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to construct an improved stockless anchor of the type in which both flukes are independently movable to the same extent relatively to the shank as the flukes of a stockless anchor in which the flukes are secured together.

In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings Figure l is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a side elevation of a stockless anchor constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 showing an alternative construction.

In carrying the invention into effect as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a shank a has one end apertured and inserted in a transverse passage in a boss 6, the latter also having longitudinal openings intersecting the passage through which passes a transverse pivot pin 0. The apertured end of the shank is secured to the boss by the main pivot pin 0. On the said pivot pin on each side of the shank is pivoted a fluke (Z. The two flukes are quite independent. A projection e on each of the outer faces of the boss engages a recess Or slot 2' in the adjacent face of the fluke, the shape or size of the slot being sufficient to provide the requisite freedom, namely, a movement through an angle of about on either side of the shank. As heretofore, the flukes are suitably shaped at their forward ends f to facilitate their engagement with the sea bed, and at their rear ends 9 are adapted by contact with the sea bed to bring the forward end into the active position when dragged by the shank. The

construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is essentially the same as that above described with the difference that a projection e on each face of the boss I) can be engaged by a projection It on the adjacent face of the fluke, the ends of said projection forming virtually the ends of an open recess on the face of the boss.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A stockless anchor including, in combination, a boss having a medial transverse passage intersected by a longitudinal opening, a shank having one end apertured and inserted in the passage, a transverse pivot pin inserted in the longitudinal opening and designed to engage the apertured end of the shank to prevent displacement thereof, fiukes swingably mounted on the projecting ends of the pin, and cooperative means on the adjacent faces of the boss and flukes for limiting the swinging movement of the flukes.

2. A stockless anchor including, in combination, a shank, separate flukes, a boss separate from the shank and arranged be tween the flukes, a pivot pin passing through the boss, shank and flukes, the inner edge of .each fluke being provided with a recess, and

a projection extending from each end edge of the boss and operating in the recess in the adjacent fluke, the said projections and recesses permitting independent movements of the flukes relative to the boss and the shank, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification.

RALPH PLAYER. WILFRID BAYLISS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

